Gaza's Health System Buckling Under Repeated Wars, Blockade

Gaza's Health System Buckling Under Repeated Wars, Blockade by Fares Akram and Aya Batrawy. AP.  May 20, 2021.   

Near-Peer Military Conflicts Will Emphasize Medical Training For Average Soldiers

Combat Medicine To Go Through Significant Changes by Steve Balestrieri.  SOFREP.  July 15, 2020.

Quick Identification Techniques Helped Identify Baghdadi

How U.S. Commandos IDed a "Mutilated' Baghdadi So Quickly by David Axe. The Daily Beast.  October 27, 2019.

Gaza and West Bank Battling An Epidemic Of Antibiotic-Resistant Superbugs; Danger of Spread

Palestinian Superbug Epidemic Could Spread, Say Doctors by Madlen Davies And Emma Graham-Harrison.  The Guardian.  December 31, 2018. 

More Gun Deaths Outside Of War Than In It

Gun-Related Homicides, Suicides Kill More People Than War, Study Says by Jen Christensen.  CNN.  Jen Christensen.  August 28, 2018. 

CDC Focus On Biopreparedness

How Prepared Is The US For An Anthrax Attack?  The CDC Investigates by Michael Nedelman And Debra Goldschmidt.  CNN,  June 20, 2018., 

Will The Next Superbug Come From Yemen? The Role Of Warfare In Antibiotic Resistance

Will The Next Superbug Come From Yemen?  by Sam Loewenberg.  New York Times.  April 14, 2018. 

CDC Briefing To Focus On Preparing For Nuclear War

CDC Briefing To Focus On Preparing For Nuclear War by Brianna Ehley.  Politico.  January 4, 2018

Wounded Troops Discharged For Misconduct Often Had PTSD or T.B.I

Wounded Troops Discharged For Misconduct Often Had PTSD or T.B.I.  by Dave Philipps. New York Times.  May 16, 2017. 

Weaponization Of Medicine And Loss Of Medical Neutrality In Syrian War

Syria Changed The World by Anne Barnard.  The New York Times.  April 21, 2017. 

Why children Face The Greatest Danger From Chemical Weapons

Why Children Face The Greatest Danger From Chemical Weapons by Rina Shaikh-Lesko.  NPR.  April 5, 2017. 

Toxic Stress May Be Reaching A Tipping Point Among Syrian Children

Report:  Syrian Children Suffering 'Toxic Stress'  AP/US News.  March 6, 2017. 

Psychologists, Paid 80m by CIA To Devise Torture Techniques, Employed Concept Of Learned Helplessness

CIA Paid Psychologists $80m To Devise And Use Torture Techniques by Rob Crilly.  The Telegraph.  December 9, 2014.

U.S. Senate Report Confirms Health Professionals' Complicity In CIA Torture.  Physicians For Human rights.  December 9, 2014.

Wounds Of War That Never Heal: A Quarter Of PTSD VA Patients Are Early Wars, Mainly Vietnam

Vets Seek Help For PTSD Decades After War by Clare Ansberry.  The Wall Street Journal.  November 28, 2014.

Whether Psychology Organization Colluded With Torture Interrogations Will Be Subject Of Probe

Psychologists To Review Role In Detainee Interrogations by James Risen.  The New York Times.  November 13, 2014.

Mental Costs Of Vietnam War Often Persist For A Lifetime

Combat Stress Among Veterans Is Found To Persist Since Vietnam by Benedict Carey.  The New York Times.  August 7, 2014.

In What Is Probably A Low Estimate, Half-Million Died In Iraq From 2003-2011.

Half-Million Iraqis Died In The War, New Study Says by Dan Vergano.  National Geographic.  October 15, 2013.

(1)  This half-million figure includes at least another ____________ were added from households forced to flee Iraq.

(2)  The household survey methodology used in this research likely resulted in a conservative figure because_______________________.

(3)  Coalition forces accounted for _______ of the killings followed by militias at __________.

(4)  About ________ Iraqis have died in bombings and shootings this year.

U.N. Reports Syria Uses Hospital Attacks As A 'Weapon Of War'

U.N. Reports Syria Uses Hospital Attacks As A 'Weapon Of War' by Nick Cumming-Bruce.  The New York Times.  September 13, 2013.

(1)  According to the report "____________________ as a weapon of war is a distinct and chilling reality of the war in Syria."

(2)  The United Nations Commission of Inquiry documented attacks on medical care by both the _____________ and the ____________.

(3)  "By rejecting the irrefutable and universally accepted _______________________ the parties to the conflict in Syria are setting a dangerous precedent.

Doctors Often Targeted, Killed, Or Forced To Flee in Syrian Civil War

In Syria's Civil War, Doctors Find Themselves In Cross Hairs by Neil MacFarquahar and Hala Droubi.   The New York Times.  March 23, 2013.

The extent of the tragedy is hinted at in this sentence summarizing the findings of The Violations Documentation Center:  "(Victims) include 120 doctors, 65 medical aid workers and 50 nurses killed, and 469 doctors jailed."  The article presents the sacrifices that medical professional make to bring healthcare to those in need.